The 'Foreignness' of the Foreign Woman in Proverbs 1-9
About this book
This study is on the figure אשה זדה and נכד׳ה, also commonly called the ‘Strange Woman’ in Proverbs 1-9. It is an attempt to understand the meaning which defines her, and the origin and development of her motif. The first part argues against defining her as a sexual predator, but as an ethnic foreigner according to the lexical studies of זד and נכד. It traces her origin within the Hebrew scripture, the legal documents and especially to the DtrH's portrayal of foreign women/wives. Hence, it distinguishes the two motifs: the motif of the adulteress and the motif of the foreign woman; the latter, which symbolizes the temptation to apostasy. The study will then go on to explain how the writer of Proverbs 1-9 employs this motif of the foreign woman in his poetic composition. The second part tracks the development of this motif through the subsequent Jewish Wisdom literature and observes how it changes and loses the ‘foreignness’ of her original motif in Eccl. 7:26; 4Q184; LXX Proverbs; Hebrew Ben Sira; Greek Ben Sira; and finally disappears in Wisdom of Solomon. It proffers to understand this gradual transformation against a background of social and religious change.
Author / Editor information
Nancy Nam Hoon Tan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China.
Reviews
"[...] this is an engaging and well-researched monograph."
L.-S. Tiemeyer in: Book List - Society for Old Testament Study 2009
"[Eine] Studie, die eindrucksvoll zeigt, wie die innerjüdische Tradition die Exegese von Prov 1-9 erhellen kann."
A. C. Hagedorn in: ZAW 121/2009
"A thouroughly worthwhile book, and a welcome addition to the literature."
David Nicoll in: New Directions 3/2009
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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgement
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Abbreviations
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Chapter One: Interpretations of the “Foreignness” of the Foreign Woman in Proverbs 1-9
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Chapter Two: “Foreignness“ and the “Foreign Wives“ in Early Post Exilic Texts
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Chapter Three: The Motif of “Foreign Wives” in Deuteronomistic Literature
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Chapter Four: The Motif of the Foreign Woman in Proverbs 1-9
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Chapter Five: Direct References to the Motif of the Foreign Woman in Other Wisdom Literature
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Chapter Six: The Motif of the Foreign Woman in the Apocryphal Wisdom Literature
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Conclusions and Implications
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Appendix: Other Foreign Women and Intermarriages in the OT
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Backmatter
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